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Solidbody Electric Guitar with Basswood Body, Maple Neck, Humbucking Pickup, Floyd Rose Tremolo, and D-Tuna - Red, Black, and White Stripes
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There is a finish crack in the bass side of the neck joint. There are also fine scratches on various parts of the guitar that are not photographed. These scratches do not show well in photos, if at all.

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The Striped Van Halen Guitar is Here!

Get that classic EVH look with the EVH Striped Series guitar. This guitar sports a basswood body, a 1-piece maple neck, and a Floyd Rose tremolo. The EVH Striped Series gives you a classic look that spans the decades of Van Halen's rock empire. A single, direct-to-body mounted EVH pickup delivers the hot and articulated guitar tones that you expect from an EVH guitar. Designed to his exact specifications and intentionally positioned against the body, the dive-bomb-only D-Tuna-equipped Floyd Rose lets you mimic Eddie’s signature trem work with ease, along with giving you instant access to Drop D tuning. The EVH Striped Series gives you absolutely awesome tone, practical playability and comfort, and the kind of stunning looks you'd expect from a world-class guitar.

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Built for extreme playability

From its basswood body and eye-catching striped finish to its 1-piece maple neck, the EVH Striped Series just screams quality — and that's just the tonewoods! This gorgeous guitar is made for serious playing, with a compound-radius fingerboard (12"-16") for chording to high-speed comfort, a Floyd Rose locking tremolo system (complete with D-Tuna), and a hard-mounted EVH humbucker. All the components come together to make a guitar that plays like a dream.

The most recognizable EVH guitar finishes

Van Halen's most recognizable instruments are his striped Frankenstein guitars. EVH has reproduced the same look and feel of these early guitars for today's market. These single-pickup Floyd Rose maple fretboard guitars mean business. The striped finish can be seen for miles and is unmistakable. There are a lot of Eddie Van Helen aficionados here at Sweetwater, and they're excited about these Striped Series guitars!

Execute massive dive-bombs with a Floyd Rose tremolo

Perform awesome dips, warbles, and dive-bombs on the EVH Wolfgang Special's Floyd Rose tremolo. This is the tremolo that rockers have been drawn to for its accuracy and tuning stability. The cool EVH D-Tuna changes your low-E string tuning to D with the simple flick of your wrist.

EVH Striped Series Features:

  • Built to rock legend Eddie Van Halen's exact specifications
  • 1-piece maple neck with graphite reinforcement
  • Floyd Rose tremolo for big dives
  • D-Tuna tremolo device gives you instant Drop D tuning
  • Basswood body with direct-mounted EVH humbucker
  • Classic striped finish

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Tech Specs

  • General
  • Number of Strings 6
  • Left-/Right-handed Right-handed
  • Body
  • Body Type Solidbody
  • Body Shape EVH
  • Body Material Basswood
  • Body Finish Gloss Polyurethane
  • Color Red, Black, and White Stripes
  • Neck
  • Neck Material Maple
  • Neck Shape Wolfgang
  • Neck Joint Bolt-on
  • Radius 12"-16" compound
  • Fingerboard Material Maple
  • Fingerboard Inlay Black Dots
  • Number of Frets 22, Jumbo
  • Scale Length 25.5"
  • Nut Width 1.6875"
  • Nut Material Locking
  • Hardware
  • Bridge/Tailpiece EVH Floyd Rose 1000 Series with D-Tuna
  • Tuners EVH Tuners
  • Electronics
  • Bridge Pickup EVH Humbucker, Direct mounted
  • Controls 1 x volume (labeled Tone)
  • Miscellaneous
  • Strings EVH Branded,, .009-.042
  • Case/Gig Bag Sold Separately
  • Manufacturer Part Number: 5107902503

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EVH Striped Series RBW

Surprised with everything: fit and finish, basswood tone, EVH Floyd, frets, hard decked tremelo... I usually go for the custom shop models, expensive models thinking I am getting what I pay for with: ESP, Charvel Custom Shop, Les Paul Custom Shop, etc... These expesive guitars are awesome. The rift sawn neck wood is amazing with some tiger in it, and with a glass like finish if you hit the satin urathane with 1500 grit 3M paper. I got lucky and picked out a rift sawn fretboard as well. If you shop like one out of 20 will be this way, just as well as the MIM Charvels. I have purchased guitars made out of the USA models three times at Sweetwater and sent all three back due to poor fit and finish, flaws, problems with frets, junk 1000 series Floyds, not all are, but some are terrible rough threads at the fine tuners, like plier tight, etc... This EVH here is either I got the one they made for Ed to inspect, or they are really good guitars. I say this because this is my best playing and sounding guitar I have now! Paired with the EVH 50 Watt Stealth amp it is glorious. Ed was correct when he said if you play one of my guitars and one of my amps you will like it. I should have bought four of these and saved about 19,000 dollars. The neck is just a tad different than a Fender C as in smaller, and fast like a charvel but not as wide in the hand from the 12th one. If you try one I hope you get one like I did and I just did not get lucky. About the EVH Floyd. The threads are better than a 1000 series. They are not quite as smooth as a German Floyd. I do not like the 1000 series fit and finish at all on that Korean Floyd. They must be doing something different with this EVH Korean Floyd, as I will keep it on and not upgrade to the German. The springs are awesome as set from factory. I thought I would try some Green and Red Floyed springs, no go, returned to the factory springs and factory position which is nearly all the way up. The guitars setting are optimum in my experiece as set at factory.
by RockShow Friday from Michigan on
Music background: Professional Musician, as in I get paid like Ted Nugent

Is it worth the price?

The neck feels awesome. It's fast, and comfortable. From chords to lead lines, it is great. I have liked and predominantly used 'unfinished' necks for a long time. This is the first maple fretboard I have ever liked too. In fairness though, I have only played fender style maple fretboards, and I just cannot stand the feel of lacquer or urethane on a fretboard. I love the feel of this as much as I like ebony.

It put a smile on my face as soon as I hit a big open E chord. It just rang out with sound. I wasn't plugged in, and did not plug in for the first couple of days. I just played it unplugged, and it sounds great that way! Chords. Riffs. Lead lines. They all just jumped right out. That all came through once I plugged it in.

Overall, just a fantastic playing guitar.

So, as the title of my review says, "Is it worth the price?"

The answer is definitely YES!

Now, as some other reviews have mentioned, this guitar has some pretty basic features compared to others in its price range. One pickup, one volume control. A great direct comparison is a Charvel San Dimas. That gets you pretty much the same neck, and extra pickup (And it comes with good pickups also) as well as back routing for a floating Floyd Rose setup. On paper, the Charvel wins, being slightly cheaper than even the white/black and yellow/black EVH models.

Lacking the neck pickup, the EVH get's you a D-Tuna, non-floating floyd setup and hand painted stripes. Yeah, I know, hand painted stripes won't do anything for actual tone, but that non-floating bridge will. Is it huge? No. but it is there. And the paint job is very well done.

At this point, I think a more appropriate question and comparison of "Is it worth the price" is "Is this the right guitar for me?" Full disclosure - my next guitar is going to be one of the Charvel San Dimas models I am making a direct comparison to. A little bit of history first.

Step back to 1984. I bought my first electric guitar. A red Harmony Flying V for $40 from a junk shop. It had really bad pickups. A friend gave me a broken Seymour Duncan hum-bucker. It was missing the magnets, and don't ask me how this worked, but somehow we cobbled it working with the magnets from my single coils, chiseled out the body a bit and got the hum-bucker wired in to the volume and output, and it sounded hot! Not long after, I put black and white stripes on with colored electrical tape.

I cannot deny at all this new EVH gives me a ton of nostalgia. This is the guitar I wished I had that so many years ago. But, it also gives me more too, and reminds me of things learned at that time, and forget at times, and have to relearn again. Things like, I don't need tons of pickup configurations to get different tones. I can pick closer to the neck, closer to the bridge, roll back on the volume pot. Playing becomes a much more organic experience at that time. In a way, it's like modelers and racks. Sure, you can have hundreds of different patches, but get one or two good ones, and you can make the guitar do the rest.

I prefer simple guitars that way. Even when I have one with two pickups, I rarely use the tone control. Just volume knob, and changing where I pick. And this guitar does an excellent job of responding when played like that. And the Wolfgang pickup transfers that response just as well. Just by changing picking position, I took my crunch sound and went from AC/DC to BTO to SRV and more. It responds that well.

Now, a lot of that is due to not being a floating Floyd. No float? More tone. Enough to matter? Maybe. Depends on style, sound. Easier bends. Much easier double stop bends. Break string? Still in tune. Drop D? Still in tune. Nice advantages there.

But, that brings me down to my one possible complaint about the guitar. And it's not so much a complaint, but possibly a spec issue. The factory specs for action and setup are really good, and this guitar can actually deliver on these specs. Yay! Due to the compound radius, .01mm clearance relief at 8th fret (1st and 17th fretted). That is *really* flat. With that set, 1.5mm clearance at 12th fret. That is really low. And on this neck, it is very playable that way.

The problem comes in, when I set it that way, my Floyd dips back enough that the FR itself is not resting on the body of the guitar, but the D-Tuna hits it first. A couple of other reviewers mentioned this, easily solvable with a tremelo stopper. That works, but it does minimize contact to a smaller point. Is that bad? Not necessarily. In fact, from what I can see from pictures of Eddie's original Frankenstein (And replicas) he actually 'blocked' the trem by putting a quarter between the trem and the body.

It is still solid contact vs floating, so easy enough to accomplish. For myself though, I will try shimming the neck first. If I cannot get it set the way I would like with shims, I will go with the trem stopper route. I expect that will work, and if it does, I will be drilling holes and screwing a quarter in to the body, just because. :)
by Sasha Crutaire from Minnesota on
Music background: Hack of all trades

Great guitar, perfect platform!

I love this guitar. After making some upgrades, this guitar lives up to the hype, and at a reasonable cost to boot. First, I replaced the springs and added a trem stop. This keeps the Floyd Rose level with the surface of the body, giving the D-TUNA some much needed clearance. Next, I added a big brass block. This both increased the sustain and accentuated the tone. Lastly, and most importantly, I swapped the Wolfgang pickup for a Frankenstein one. I now have a guitar that plays and sounds incredible! It sounds as good as the $25k replica, plays like a dream, and everything including this guitar, all of the parts and a new EVH hardshell case... What are you waiting for?
by Cid from Seattle on
Music background: Semi-Pro

A New Taste

I have been a Gibson Les Paul player exclusively since 1982. I bought the EVH Bumble Bee first and upon playing it I bought the White with black stripes and then I bought this one. These Guitars are FANTASTIC and the service from Alan Finkbeiner and Sweetwater is unmatched anywhere. Guitar Center who?
by Timothy from Jordan on
Music background: Semi Pro

EVH

It is the best guitar I have ever owned. I would highly recommend it and the purchaseing experience was a great with a lot of support. Thank you Sweetwater
by Ron Paglione from Brighton Mi on
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